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What Happens When You Buy Men's Sweaters

An unfortunate coincidence: the only thick sweater I brought back to the Midwest; the only one my dad found warm enough for 9° below zero. We went to dinner like this. I was planning to say we were part of a Wooden Ski Revivalist Society if anyone raised an eyebrow. No one batted an eyelash - probably worse.

This exact same thing happened to me in the Dominican Republic. None of us had brought sweaters to my friend's family's mountain house, so she had to pull out her parents' sweaters, which were matching and didn't look too dissimilar to those! We all took pictures in those "mom and dad" poses where the mom sits in the chair and the dad stands behind with his arm on her shoulder.